Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space

by Colin Richards, Michael Parker Pearson, Mike Parker Pearson

Book Overview

Architecture is a powerful medium for representing, ordering and classifying the world, and understanding the use of space is fundamental to archaeological inquiry. Architecture and Order draws on the work of archaeologists, social theorists and architects to explore the way in which people relate to the architecture which surrounds them. In many societies, houses and tombs have encoded cultural meanings and values which are invoked and recalled through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415157439
• ISBN13: 9780415157438
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"